Word: pompeian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elliott C. Carter, Jr. '30 using Italian folk songs as his theme. Masks and scenery are based on wall paintings from the period when mural art in Rome was most under the influence of the theatre. The stage setting itself is modelled after one familiar to visitors to the Pompeian room of New York City's Metropolitan Museum. The whole production will reproduce as closely as possible the actual atmosphere of the first century...
...Ledochowski in Rome. The 80 students who will study under eight priests at West Baden College will live in ordinary Jesuit routine - up at 5 a. m., to bed at 9 p. m., plenty of work, prayers, meditation. They may well be appalled in contemplating the hotel's Pompeian Court which, 200 ft. in diameter and six stories high, is supposed to be the world's largest room not supported by pillars...
Alice Brydon Ritchie, widow of Harold F. ("Carload") Ritchie, famed Toronto 'salesman who distributed Eno's Fruit Salt, Glover's Mange Medicine, Rubberset Brushes, Tanglefoot Fly Paper. Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy, Scott's Emulsion, Pompeian Cream all over the world (TIME, March 6), was elected president of her late husband's distributing firm, Harold F. Ritchie...
...sales agencies through which such commodities as Rubberset brushes, Tanglefoot fly paper, Glover's Mange Cure and Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy have been broadcast over six continents. His, too, the control of such famed products as Eno's Fruit Salt, Scott's Emulsion, Pompeian beauty cream. And his nom de guerre, immortal in the annals of super-salesmanship, was "Carload Ritchie...
...control of Eno's Fruit Salt, whose U. S. and Canadian agent he had been for many years, by buying it (for a reported $10,000,000). Its parent company, International Proprietaries, showed $944,000 earnings in 1931. In 1930 he bought from Colgate-Palmolive-Peet their Pompeian beauty cream business. His partners in the deal were the Shoemakers of Elmira, N. Y., owners of the Frostilla line of beauty lotions, which Ritchie once sold in Canada. In 1931, again in partnership with the Shoemakers, he bought from Scott & Bowne for "several million dollars" their famed old Scott...